Private Clint Eastwood (now actor and director) was getting a lift in a Douglas AD-1Q dive bomber that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the Point Reyes Peninsula near San Francisco on 30 Sept 1951. The pilot was Naval Lt, (jg) P. C. Anderson. Eastward swam to shore and Anderson paddled to shore. The plane ran out of fuel in fog

Can anyone identify the serial and Anderson?

Of course Eastwood is now the director of Sully the film about true Hudson ditching
Thanks Paul

Last edited by paulmcmillan; 3rd December 2016 at 00:56.
Reason: Typo on name

Interesting. Here's another name I've often wondered about (and never thought to ask anyone). Has anybody ever identified any aircraft flown by Hall of Fame and Boston Red Sox baseball player Ted Williams, who flew with the Marines in WWII and in Korea (and lost several years of baseball doing so)? Or the any of the bombers flown by Jimmy Stewart or George McGovern (I think it was) over Europe in WWII?